Horn Speaker Recommendations

" I am wondering if Roy Delgado would feel the Jubilees would work in a 15 by 20 room. Sorry if I offended you. Enjoy ! MrD. "
  No not offended at all I just think people get cheated out of some systems because they don't realize how they really function. Met Roy at the last Klipsch gathering and here is a bit of Klipsch history for you. A select group of speaker owners were invited to Klipsch to preview the Jubilee and none of them were, as far as I know, professional sound stage guys representing theaters or industry. Claude and Coytee on the Klipsch forum were two of them and still active there and they probably would fill you in on the details if you go there and ask. Suffice it to say Roy would approve of their use anywhere I believe. It was the last speaker he and Paul Klipsch worked on together so it has a place in his heart. Would he say so in public since Jubilees are far more sound than KHorns at half the price? We think this is why the Jubilees are kept industrial looking so as to not compete with the much more refined appearance of veneered boxes. Plus it is pretty hard to make the 402 horns on top of them pretty with zero WAF.
  My main goal in pushing these horns is based on the food chain many of us waste our time and money on. We keep spending a little more looking for that great audio and then go through way to many sets before we find what we were looking for. I had to waste a lot of time and money before I had ever heard my first real good 2" horn driven pro speaker and I just wish someone would have shown me those when I first became interested in Klipsch.  By the way, if anyone reads up on those Super MWM's the 3D or 2D files are freely available to anyone who wants to build a set for personal use. This is not permission to start making these for profit.

" My only advice for you. Try and listen to everything you can, before you buy, and, if possible, to listen in your new room "  The best possible advice you can get. You might not get them in your room but find someone who has what you are interested in and listen first and also find out how they feed them to get them to sound right if you like them..

Larger horn systems may be hard to blend into the decor of multi-use rooms and smaller rooms, but, they do not inherently sound out of place in small rooms.  To me, they are so much better than most speaker types as low volume that their biggest strength is playback at low volume in small venues.  Yes, they will do loud, but, they are even better at doing soft (they still sound alive).  Whether this is in the nature of the horns themselves, or the low-powered amps that can be used with these high efficiency speakers (I am guessing both are factors), it remains the case that it is somewhat harder to find non-horn based systems that are so lively at low volume (old quad 57 electrostatics come to mind as contenders).

Being a UK-based Wigwam scribe, have you by any chance listened to
Simon Mears Audio Uccello's?
Yes, they were at one of our annual enthusiasts' shows. I thought they were very good. Not as lively as the La Scalas and may be more suited to classical/jazz but still very much in the room.

Mr D...whoops overdone the enthusiasm. But I did like the speakers a lot and as they are hand made in the US thought the UK's cross Atlantic cousins may be interested.Speakers not for the chin-stroking studiers but they do make you want to get up and dance. And in my case, not a pretty sight but I did not care.

Some ideas about hybrids and other horn system, and coherence.

Almost every horn system have dynamics, and gives more "flesh and blood" than classical "box speakers".
but...
As said @mrdecibel, coherence is essential. To my opinion, THE point to accomplish when making a speaker. Coherent speaker are not so frequent , and coherent horn systems are...very rare :-D
Even if i do not close my eyes, i want to forget how many speakers/horns are playing. I want to hear musicians between the speakers, not treble / medium / bass horn

With any hybrid horn speaker, there is ALWAYS a mismatch. Even with the best (even those i made years ago :-D ), even perfectly crossed and time aligned, the mismatch is in dynamics behavior, or "speed" feeling, or tone. 
One can be easily blown away by his first listening experience with this kind of horn system. To be still in love with it weeks, months, and years later is another story !

About La Scala and comparable speakers : Properly used they can be enjoyable...well, exhilarating speakers ! They are very compact for their efficiency too, and affordable. Many good reasons to by and keep them...But  i am not found of the horn association : For me it is a bass horn with a medium horn. Who is supposed to reproduce the low mid ? male voices ? cello ? A 15" speaker cannot do that properly, moreover in a folded horn. An heavily truncated  500 Hz acoustical cutoff horn neither.

When testing a horn system, it is unnecessary to play "boom-boom-kss-kss" music (rock&roll, many jazz trio, and of course audiophile drum records) : this will be fun and probably good. Most of the problems will occur playing voices, or string quartet. Play them to point out mismatch between the horns, crossover issues, phase shift, blur in sound stage (when it is not image overlays :-D. )...

For all those reasons, when i do not listen a perfectly voiced full horn loaded system, i play a simple full range in open baffle.
For coherence :-D

Marc HENRY
https://www.kornhent.bzh